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What are the main symptoms that define the medical condition of psychosis?
Question : What are the main symptoms that define the medical condition of psychosis?
psychosis symptoms
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Answer by michele
The hallmark symptoms of psychoses are hallucinations and delusions (loss of contact with reality).
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#2 written by Kathryn R 1 year ago
IN Plain English psychosis is the lost of reality as we all know it. Someone who is in the middle of a psychotic thinks things like the voices that they hear are also heard by the others around them. They think that what they see is also seen by others also. It’s usually means that their reality is different from the reality that the rest of us experience.
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DSM-IV: Psychotic Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition
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This psychotic mental disorder is diagnosed when evidence indicates that delusions or hallucinations developed as the physiological result of a general medical illness which must be specified separately. Delusional and hallucinated subtyping indicates the predominant symptom.
Diagnostic criteria for 293.xx Psychotic Disorder Due to…[Indicate the General Medical Condition]
(cautionary statement)
A. Prominent hallucinations or delusions.
B. There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings that the disturbance is the direct physiological consequence of a general medical condition.
C. The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental disorder.
D. The disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of a Delirium.
psychopathology: delusion
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Commonly defined in behavioral health care as a fixed false belief (excluding beliefs that are part of a religious movement) this psychotic symptom is present in a variety of serious mental disorders.
Also: delusion, delusion of grandeur, hallucination, idée fixe, paranoia
psychopathology: hallucination
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This psychotic symptom found in a variety of serious mental disorders involves sensory perceptual distortions, for example seeing (visual), hearing (auditory), smelling (olfactory), feeling (haptic, tactile), or tasting (gustatory) sensations that others would not sense and do not exist outside one’s perception.
Also: command hallucination, delusion, paranoia, hallucinate, vision
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DSM-IV: Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)
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This designation abbreviated NOS can be used when the mental disorder appears to fall within the larger category but does not meet the criteria of any specific disorder within that category.
American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1994
(Above from http://www.behavenet.com) Also see http://www.psychosis.researchtoday.net (.net/about-psychosis.htm)